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'Monster': Some Very Good Parts

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030718
Author:Bill Triplett

If ever a monster needed a good lawyer, it's the hapless creature of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's luridly gothic tale "Frankenstein."

Misrepresented in any number of movies as a grunting simpleton driven to homicide by a cruel world, the original character is probably unrecognizable to everyone but grad students of English lit. A defamation suit could be only one of several possible actions the famous boogeyman could bring.

Neal Bell may not be a lawyer, but he is a playwright with a flair for taut theatricality. His stage adaptation of the novel -- "Monster," which just opened as part of the ...

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